A major hack request!
 

I don't even know if it's possible for someone to do this, but I figured I would ask.

My board is an auto enthusiast board and since the very beginning I have wanted to have an "extended" profile setup like that of http://hondaprelude.com you can see an example of their setups at http://hondaprelude.com/setups

You would add/edit your setups in a members "profile" section.. so there would be a link in there calld "car information" or something like that..

Basically I am assuming this would require setting up another database and then linking a members userid to that new database with his/her car information but maybe not??

I don't know the technical aspects of doing this type of integration, but I imagine this would be huge project to make. Please let me know if anybody is interested in doing this hack.

I am willing to pay for this to be done, if nobody else on here thinks they would want this type of hack done..

Does this help?

Well you could get the information for the stuff easily. All you would need is the image upload hack thing or whatever that allows you to upload an image to your profile or something, then create a custom profile field for each thing. Then just make a seperate page that displays that information on it and give a link to that page in the member's profile or on the memberlist. Correct me if I'm wrong though,

That portfolio kinda is what I want, but not totally. having the ability for a user to upload pictures themselves would be a luxury, but not a neccessity. The main thing I am looking at is the expanded profile with a seperate link to view that profile. Maybe if I could get the guy who does the portfolio to customize it for me, but I will wait until he has all the bugs worked out. No sense in asking him to customize something he is still working on.

To [D]Vincent, the way you make it sound, it does sound easy to create. HOWEVER, I am just now getting comfortable at hacking my boards. Trying to create the code myself for this stuff, would take me forever. I don't even know where to start :( Hopefully someone will take this request and work on it.

[D]Vincent what you said is absolutely correct. You can do this thru the control panel. If you are only talking about a couple of different values you would like to store that would work great. You could even reuse the avatar upload functionality in vBulletin to make picture available as an added feature.

If you are talking about more information than a handful you will want a more custom approach. Something that will have a more user friendly interface to cator to your customers and the data you are storing.

Correct me if I am missing something here but I believe that the additional settings you can add are limited to text field controls currently. I have been just recently attempting to make use of that in my next hack I am working on. I didn't see a way of adding a pull down or a radial button or anything but a straight text control.

I haven't gotten a hold of teddybare69 lately so I don't know if he is even working on his portfolio program anymore.


Is anyone interested in doing this hack for me? I wish I could get some screenshots of hondaprelude.com's setup, but the guy had to shut down the site :(

Just add more custom profiles, and modify the getinfo templates so that the layout is different. Make all these custom profile fields hidden so they won't show up as a list in the normal getinfo custom profile list. Then just put the custom profile variables with the correct field numbers in the right place in getinfo. Make one of the custom profile a place where members can put in the URL to an image of their car, and in the appropriate place in the getinfo template, point the img src tag to that custom profile field variable. You can approximately get a similar result without hacking by just modifying the template. :)

Adding fields and allowing users to upload pictures to those area's may be easy for you guys. BUT, I have no idea where to even start on the hacking of code or templates for that matter. If anybody is interested or intrigued let me know by either replying or sending me an email.

I hope somebody responds :glasses: